Cartouche Containing an Empty Shield Surmounted by a Lion and Framed by a Lion and a Child
Medium
Etching; second state
Dimensions
Plate: 5 3/8 × 7 11/16 in. (13.6 × 19.6 cm) Sheet: 9 15/16 × 13 1/8 in. (25.2 × 33.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Walter H. Smith, 1935
Accession Number
35.53.80
Tags
About the Artist
Stefano della Bella|François Langlois · 1610–1664
Stefano della Bella (1610-1664) was one of the most prolific and versatile printmakers of the Italian Baroque period, leaving behind 1,052 prints and several thousand drawings that captured the vivid essence of 17th-century European life. Born in Florence on May 18, 1610, to a family of artists, he trained initially as a goldsmith before studying painting under Cesare Dandini and etching under Rem...